Overview
- The first book to make the connection between poetry and care ethics
- Interdisciplinary appeal: Written for care theorists, feminist scholars, and literary scholars
- Fills a need for a hopeful and humble approach to morality
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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About this book
Care Ethics and Poetry is the first book to address the relationship between poetry and feminist care ethics. The authors argue that morality, and more specifically, moral progress, is a product of inquiry, imagination, and confronting new experiences. Engaging poetry, therefore, can contribute to the habits necessary for a robust moral life—specifically, caring. Each chapter offers poems that can provoke considerations of moral relations without explicitly moralizing. The book contributes to valorizing poetry and aesthetic experience as much as it does to reassessing how we think about care ethics.
Reviews
“A lovely tribute to both poetry and care ethics and how, together, they increase moral sensitivity and joy in our relationships.” (Nel Noddings, Lee Jacks Professor of Child Education, Emerita, Stanford University)
“Finally, a book that does justice to care by welcoming complexity, context and creativity. This polyvocal book delightfully and meticulously tells us the story about a performative and aesthetic approach to caring and moral progress. Slowly but surely, one becomes part of an intimate tapestry of voices of poets, ethicists and moral philosophers. Hamington and Rosenow not only provide us with new ethical language, they also evoke wonder and a longing for more.” (Merel Visse, Associate Professor of Care Ethics, University of Humanistic Studies, The Netherlands)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Maurice Hamington is Professor of Philosophy at Portland State University, USA.
Ce Rosenow is the Coordinator of the Lane Honors Program at Lane Community College, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Care Ethics and Poetry
Authors: Maurice Hamington, Ce Rosenow
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17978-6
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17977-9Published: 30 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-17978-6Published: 17 May 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 130
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ethics, Poetry and Poetics, Aesthetics, Women's Studies, Feminism